I want to delete the compaq diagnostic partition on a 6500

[Robert Way]

How can I do this while saving my current installation of W2K Server. I'm guessing I can do it with FDISK or a third party util but the OS is expecting to boot from partition 2, do I need to edit the OS to boot from 1 since the EISA partition will be gone.

[Tarek Kawach]

Hi Robert:

you cannot get ride of your EISA partion; and why would you want to do that.

If you attempt to delete it you might lose your RIS table (Array raid info on the drives) it is like delpart; will wipe your Master boot record.

you normally have 8 meg partion and 26-39 meg EISA partion this is your F10 SCU the CMOS software for your bios.

If you remove that you cannot go to the bios and configure changes; will have to boot to smartstart or SCU floppy sp19619.exe


I will not delete it; if you are going to do it anyways ; make sure you have good backup.

Tarek.

[Robert Way]

Thanks for your concern but I have my reasons and am aware of the consequences but I still need a good method to get the EISA partition out of there and save my W2K partition and be able to boot from it.

[Terry Hutchings]

You should be able to delete it using either Fdisk or booting up to the Win2000 cd and using the disk carving utility (without an OS install).

You should, at a minimum, add an additional entry to your boot.ini for partition(1).